Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
JOHN DRYDENOf all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
More John Dryden Quotes
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.
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By education most have been misled.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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